Lisa A. Kihl, PhD, associate professor in the School of Kinesiology, and Vicki D. Schull, PhD, lecturer in the School, co-authored “Gendered Leadership Expectations in Sport: Constructing Differences in Coaches” in the Women in Sport & Physical Activity Journal. The article examines the gendered nature of sport leadership by studying female college athletes’ perceptions of leadership […]

Madeleine Orr, School of Kinesiology doctoral student with an emphasis in sport management, published a paper in Event Management together with a colleague at the University of Brighton in England. The paper is titled “Blinded by Gold: Toronto Sports Community Ignores Negative Legacies of 2015 Pan Am Games.” Orr’s winning Three-Minute Thesis (3MT®) “The Rhetoric vs. the Reality of […]

The School of Kinesiology‘s Sport Management faculty and students were well represented at the North American Society of Sport Management (NASSM) conference in Halifax on June 5-9, 2018. Presenters from the School included faculty Yonghwan Chang, Ph.D., Yuhei Inoue, Ph.D. and Lisa Kihl, Ph.D., doctoral students Caroline Heffernan, Madeleine Orr, Ji Wu, and visiting scholar Kurumi Aizawa, […]

Lisa A. Kihl, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the  Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations (GIRSO), gave a talk at the Twin Cities chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners annual meeting on June 13. One hundred attended the event and participated in an interactive discussion on Kihl’s presentation titled, […]

Yuhei Inoue, Ph.D., associate professor of sport management in the School of Kinesiology, has published a multi-year study with two colleagues examining the extent to which sporting event attendance is associated with self-rated health in Global Health Research and Policy. “Association between sporting event attendance and self-rated health: an analysis of multiyear cross-sectional national data in Japan” […]

Kinesiology Ph.D. candidate Madeleine Orr has been selected to receive a $2,100 graduate student award from the Women’s Philanthropic Leadership Circle (WPLC). Orr is in the Sport Management emphasis and is advised by Yuhei Inoue, Ph.D. The award will be presented at the WPLC’s annual awards celebration on Tuesday, June 12, at the Town and Country Club. […]

Yuhei Inoue, Ph.D., assistant professor of sport management in the School of Kinesiology, is featured and profiled in the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of CEHD Connect. The article, Fans for Health, highlights Inoue’s research in ways that sports spectatorship can lead to a sense of belonging, specifically in older adults. Inoue partnered with Daniel Wann, a […]

Madeleine Orr, Kinesiology Ph.D. candidate and 2017 winner of the University-wide Three-Minute Thesis Competition (3MT®), traveled to Grand Rapids, MI, for the 3MT® Regional Championships hosted by the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools. She was accompanied by Scott Lanyon, Ph.D., U of M Vice-Provost and Dean of Graduate Education. Contestants came from 39 different universities across the […]

The U of M was host to the Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Psychology Symposium on April 5-7 at the Recreation and Wellness Center on the Twin Cities campus. A number of faculty, students, alumni, and associates from the School of Kinesiology (listed below) were involved in the program and presentations. The symposium opened with […]

Lisa Kihl, Ph.D., sport management associate professor in the School of Kinesiology, was quoted in today’s Minnesota Daily on the new bill introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives to establish protections for student athletes who enter agreements with agents. The bill expands on existing legislation, the Uniform Athlete Agents Act, which was passed by the […]

An article,”College sports reformers stay positive despite setbacks,” appearing in The Japan Times features Yuhei Inoue, Ph.D., assistant professor of sport management in the School of Kinesiology. The article emphasizes Inoue and colleagues’ joint research project with Japan’s University of Tsukuba, Temple University and Dome Corporation to allow sport teams to be formally recognized as […]

Yuhei Inoue, Ph.D., assistant professor of sport management in the School of Kinesiology, received 20k funding from the Sport Industry Research Center at Temple University. For the last two years, Inoue is part of the Japan College Sport Research program, where he and the project leads, Dr. Jermey Jordan and Dr. Daniel Funk at Temple University […]

In preparation for this year’s 3-Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition, CEHD is hosting a Mentoring Workshop on February 1. Last year’s University-wide 3MT winner Madeleine Orr, a sport management doctoral student in the School of Kinesiology will serve as a panelist at this event. In addition, Orr and Kinesiology’s Morgan Betker, doctoral student with a focus on exercise physiology […]

Madeleine Orr, Ph.D. student in the School of Kinesiology with the emphasis on sport management was recently interviewed for the CEHD Vision 2020 blog about her research on the economic, social and environmental impact of large-scale international sporting events. As Minneapolis prepares for the upcoming Super Bowl events, Orr talks in the article titled “Does Hosting Sports Events like the […]

Lisa A. Kihl, Ph.D., associate professor of sport management in the School of Kinesiology has published an edited book titled Corruption in Sport: Causes, Consequences, and Reform. Published by Routledge, the book is a seminal text that explores the complexity of sport corruption in terms of its conceptualization, measurement, causes, consequences, reform, and future research. Corruption in […]

For their final project, students in KIN 8980 – Graduate Research Seminar in Kinesiology presented ideas for research projects “that bridge” across different School of Kinesiology emphasis areas. KIN 8980 is required for all M.S./M.A. and Ph.D. students, and covers topics such as responsible conduct of research and proposal design. Yuhei Inoue, Ph.D., assistant professor of Sport Management […]

Congratulations to Madeleine Orr, Kinesiology Ph.D. student in the Sport Management emphasis,  who won the Second Annual University-wide 3MT® Competition held December 1. The competition, sponsored by the Graduate School, featured finalists from collegiate- and campus-level competitions. Orr will represent the University of Minnesota at the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) 3-Minute Thesis competition […]

A November 8 panel discussion at TCF Bank Stadium, “Challenges and Future Landscape of the Twin Cities Sports Industry,” was covered by the Minneapolis Spokesman-Review. Lisa Kihl, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and co-coordinator of the event, was quoted, along with representatives from local sports teams. Their comments and concerns ranged from […]

Last spring, Madeleine Orr, School of Kinesiology Ph.D. student, won the College of Education and Human Development’s 3-Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) with her presentation, “The Rhetoric vs. the Reality of Sport Event Legacies.” On December 1 she will take the podium again as the University of Minnesota Graduate School hosts the U of M’s 3MT preliminary-round winners […]

Together with Gopher Athletics and the Minnesota Twins, Lisa A. Kihl, Ph.D., associate professor of sport management in the School of Kinesiology, organizes a panel discussion titled “Challenges and Future Landscape of the Twin Cities Sports Industry.” The discussion will address opportunities and limits of the Twin Cities’ vibrant sport industry in a relatively small […]